Literary usage of Neck ruff

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1903)"Both have the short flounced appendage to the bottom of the bodice, below the
overskirt ; a neck-ruff, which does not completely encircle the neck, ..."

2.Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society by Essex Archaeological Society (1906)"The man wears a large neck-ruff, a buttoned doublet, and a long fur-lined civilian
gown, with large striped false-sleeves. The fur, which shows at the ..."

3.The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of India: Being Descriptions of All the Species by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)"... white; under tail-coverts slightly barred; the neck-ruff in its full integrity
during the breeding season begins from the ear-coverts, the feathers are ..."

4.Catalogue of the Paintings in the Old Pinakothek Munich by Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Franz Reber (1885)"Portrait of a man with short, white hair, white beard and moustache, dressed in
black, with white neck- ruff. Breast-piece. Signed in the left corner above: ..."

5.The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)"... may be easily distinguished from the true condor, which it nearly equals in
size, by the lack of the white neck- ruff and of the caruncle of the male. ..."

6.The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)"It attains a length of four feet, and is of a general yellowish-brown tint, the
tail and wing quills being black, and the neck ruff white. ..."